Final election results show neither Netanyahu nor rival can immediately form government

What the coverage shows

Most outlets converge on the vote as a high-turnout, high-stakes referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, and several, including AP, CBS, Reuters, BBC and NPR, frame it as his political survival test after the Oct. 7 attacks. The main divergence is in the exit-poll framing: BBC, AP, Reuters, CBS, The Guardian, Axios, Al Jazeera and South China Morning Post emphasize no clear winner or a deadlock, while Fox News and The Hill stress the close race and record turnout. Newsweek is alone in foregrounding the Arab vote as potentially decisive, and Fox News is alone among the headlines in explicitly pairing the vote with Trump backing Netanyahu.

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